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Cause sometimes it’s hard to let the future begin! ― LorraineHansberry Many people believe the nation’s current turmoil is ...

Intraparty fighting is threatening to stall the Democratic Party’s efforts to rebuild seven months after President Trump’s sweeping general election victory. The party has also been roiled ...

Tanks and thousands of troops paraded through the streets of Washington, D.C., for the Army's 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump's birthday.

One way to look at the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term is that the wily president has managed to trick ...

President Trump's approach to deportations is giving Democrats a unifying message in opposition to him. But the Democratic ...

While Democrats are undergoing a bruising internal debate about generational change, Republicans have shown little appetite ...

Although there are plenty of obstacles, the conditions for a successful challenge to the two major parties could be coming ...

Authorities have named Vance Boelter, 57, as a suspect in the shootings that killed a top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband early Saturday, as well as another shooting that wounded a ...

Kamala Harris’s campaign thought it knew exactly how to beat Donald Trump. With just weeks left before Election Day, it ...

Trump followed that up with a campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where uniformed soldiers cheered as he ...